Whiffletree



(No Model.) Y C.Y AMMARELL WHIFFLETREE. No. 264,600; Patented S9pt.19,1882.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT Ferca.

CHRISTIAN AMMARELL, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

WHIFFLETREE.

'SPECIFICATION forming part of YLetters Patent No. 264,600, datedSeptember 19, 1882,

Application filed April 21,1882. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN AMMARELL, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Whiftletrees, ot' which thefollowing is al specification.

The object of this invention is to prevent the whiffletrees from movingor tipping in vertical planes.

The invention consists of novel devices for holding Whiftletrces in suchpositions that they can move only in horizontal planes and can.V not tipor move vertically to interfere with the horses legs.

Figure l is a plan of myimproved ivhiflietree. Fig. 2 is a sectionalelevation of the same on line x Fig. l. Fig. 3 isa detailed plan view,showing the connecting-bar of a singletree inserted in the lugs of thedoubletree-end iron. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. u V

In the drawings, A represents a double-tree, on the center and front ot'whichA is secured a metal plate, A', havin g a central verticallyformedeye, a, while on each end of said double'- tree A is secured an ironring, B, having forward projecting perforated lugs b b, the hole in eachupper lug being preferably square, as shown at c, to prevent the turningof the bolt therein. -This double-.tree A is passed through the fork Bof' the tongue C, by which the device is designed to be attached to acar or other vehicle, and is secured therein by means ota bolt, D, thatis passed down through the holes ff' in the fork B and the eye c of theplate A', the square shoulder d of the said bolt I) fitting in `thesquare hole fin the fork B and preventing said bolt D from turning.

It will he observed that t-he fork of the tongue O is deep enough fromrear to front to permit of the free motion of the double-tree A in ahorizontal plane, while it is too narrow in the other direction topermit of an appreciable motion of said tree in a vertical plane, whichconstruction is obviously an important improvement over the ordinarywhifietree devices that permit the trees to tip vertically.

The tongue-fork B' is extended forward in the form ot' a closed loop, E,that serves for the lfrom a car or other vehicle.

engagement therein of a car-hook`when the operator desiresto hold up thewhiftletrees for the purpose of attaching or detaching them This closedloop E possesses great advantages over the hook commonly liXed on thefront of the double-tree, because it offers no point for the accidentalcatching of the traces therein.

The singletrees F F are provided with end irons, G G, having forwardprojecting single lugs m and rings g g for attachment ot1 the traces.(Not shown.)

H is a iiat bar or link having one end fashioned into a screw threadedbolt, 7L, and a square shoulder is formed on said bar H, while in theother end of said bar H is an eye, k. This bar H has its screw-threadedend inserted through the center of a single-tree, F, with its shoulder lentered into a corresponding socket, m, in said tree, and then a nut, n,screwed on said screw-threaded end, holds the tree F, so that it cannotturn on said bar H. The opposite end ot' the bar H is held between thelugs b b of a double-tree-end iron, B, preferably by a square-shoulderedbolt, I, that serves as apivot on which the single-tree F can move in ahorizontal plane, while the engagement ofthe end of the bar H-betweenthe lugs b b prevents any vertical motion of said tree F.

It 'will be seen, then, that this invention for restricting the motionof whiftletrees to horizontal planes is one of great importance in thisclass of devices.

I am aware of Patents Nos. 231,3S1,151,S04, and 130,217, and I do notclaim the construction shown in either patent.

What I claim isv 1. The combination, with the double-tree A and theplate A', having a vertical tube or eye, a, ot' greater length than" thediameter of the double-tree, of the tongue G, provided with a loop, B',fitting closely' against the ends of the tube a, and having holes ff' toallow the passage of a bolt. through the loop and tube,

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between said ears, and provided at the other end with :t shoulder, I,and bolt p,:1nd the whiflletree F, having a rectangular socket toreceive the shoulder l, whereby said whiiletree is kept from falling,`or from turning, except in zn horizontal line, substantially nsdescribed.

In testimony that I elninl the foregoing as my invention I have signedmyname, in presence of two Witnesses, this 5th day of April, 1o i 1852.

CHRISTIAN AMMARELL.

Witnesses:

GoTLInn GLEICIIMANN, 'JACOB J. STORER.

